Quotable Quotes

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"The Iranian nation, with its unity and the grace of Allah, will punch the arrogance [Western powers] on the 22nd of Bahman [Thursday, February 11] in a way that will leave them stunned," (yahoo news)

Ayatollah Komeini

Oh boy! I'm sure he's going to really light up some building with tons, I mean TONS of light bulbs! What?

BHM 2010 - Message of the Week

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This week is the reading of the portion/parashat Mishpatim which is Exodus 21, 1-24. Mishpatim is plural for mishpat which means sentences. These are a series of dinim or rules for various situation.

For example, if one is a slave or acquires a Jewish slave then here are the rules of dealing with him. Basically, after seven years the slave has the option to walk away. If he is crazy enough to stay being a slave, then the master nails his ear to the door for the whole world to see what a crazy fool this guy is, then then the slave remains a slave forever!

At the end is the part where the famous saying goes...

22 And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23 But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. {S} (Exodus 21)

I guess this week is a week of exacting retribution. Probably now would be a good time to request reparations, to cry out about a wrong, to fix, etc. Its in the air.. these rules are awake and shining this week.

May this learning be in the merit that Haiti should recover completely and deal well with the UN, America and any other opportunists out to steal their children, their goods, their dignity. Amen v'Amen.

Is it Good for Haiti? Gold and Oil

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Turns out I should have wondered why there were so many UN officials in Haiti at the time of the earthquake. As it turns out much Haiti since 1994 has become basically a fort for the UN. I don't know how long they've known this, but gold and oil have been discovered in Haiti. In fact, the oil reserve seems greater than Venezuela's-- so much larger its not even worth comparing! Ah. No wonder all the aids are not reaching the people. Story.

Nations want the Haitian people dead. And gone. (or just amputated at best).

Praise God, the country to took the title of the "poorest country in....wherever" is not really. Hmmm..sorry the stigma didn't stick. Not.

I must make a special trip to the Wailing Wall on this one. Surely in the merit that Haiti was among the first countries to recognize Israel, as they say those who bless it shall be blessed, hopefully they will be blessed in return.

For a more comprehensive outline see Israel Truth Times blog.

To Haitians: Prie' po pays ou. Bon Dieu ap tande'!!

BHM 2010- Parashat Yitro

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I think its quite interesting to start February 2010, Black History Month, with the whole Jewish community reading the Torah portion called Yitro -a.k.a. Jethro, father of Tzipporah. Poetic justice? God's hand to get people to think about BHM?

We all know the wonderful legend of how the story of Moses and Tzipporah got turned into: "Why you gotta be with that black woman?!" When in actuality, the story was that Miriam and Aaron couldn't believe that Moses would abstain from Tzipporah because she was so gorgeous. Story has it, he did the same to an Ethiopian bride that he had prior to Tzipporah. This, to me, is why Miriam said Cushite (African/ or Ethiopian) twice in the verse.

But what's so special about Yitro himself?

"1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel His people, how that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. " (Exodus 18;1)

According to Oral tradition and various teachings I've heard, I've gathered that:

Jethro was not so impressed with the splitting sea and the rescuing of a people from within another nation alone. Everyone in those times who heard the story was impressed. Many may have wanted to do some repentance and changing their lives around for the better to be more in tune to God's will. But what Yitro heard that others may have missed was that there is an Amalek -and God helped Israel against them too.

The Amalekites were descendents of Esau. Their main goal was the destruction of the Jewish people. (Hitler, Germany was said to be one of their descendents)So much so were they bent on this mission, that even after all the miracles that had occurred, they were unfazed and were willing to be the first to try to attack them as they exited out of Egypt.

So, too, today, many of us have these dogs that bark "you ain't s****!!!" whenever we try to better ourselves. Amalek.

Many people will try to better themselves, but what Yitro did was (1) try to better himself as a result of the miracles that he heard but also (2) attached himself to the group that he knew would one day fight Amalek so he wouldn't have to face them alone should he progress in his service to God.

BHM -A Short Story

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There was once a dark alien that landed on earth (Song of Songs). She had coils and coils of iron antennas atop her head. With those iron antennas she would access information from a satellite above and would open her mouth and disburse wisdom. (Rebbe Nachman, Likutei Moharan, Lessom 31)

The nations saw her and became afraid. They tried to devise ways to stop her. They were afraid she would get at the truth. And so they tried various ways to destroy her. Because it is written that "Adam knew his wife" or "Yitzchok knew Rifka" (Chumash, Binle)etc. It was known that there was a connection between knowledge and sexuality. So the nations tried to pervert her by accusing her of being hyper sexual. She was unfazed.

They came up with another tactic. Instead of pulling, they decided to push. They accused her of being asexual! Again, she remained unfazed.

Finally, they united and came up with a brilliant plan. Together they came with a gigantic magnet (foreign ideologies). This magnet was attractive to the space girl. She turned towards it. It seem to possess the same attractive powers of her satellite, but it wasn't the same. Also, because it was angled from people on the ground, her antennas began to be pulled in a different direction. Her coils became more loose. Some antennas -especially the new growth- remained standing upwards and some went towards the magnetic pull of the magnet. Soon, it was an entangled matted mess!

The girl began to receive mixed signals. She would still open her mouth, but instead of wisdom, foolishness would spew out!

The nations began to laugh at her. They scorned and mocked her. The girl tried to keep her royal status by giving birth, but every time a birth occurred it was painful and she cried out: "O.O.W.!!!" "O.O.W.!!!"

Finally, in great despair, she shut her eyes. She realized the magnetic pull is what was keeping her in this state and she had to get out by any means necessary.

So she closed her eyes and sang out the holy word which is G-d's name.

Over and over she sang out His Name. Sometimes she moaned it, sometimes she shouted it. Over and over and over and over.

Slowly, with the Name reverberating in her head causing her to shudder in awe, she was able to turn away from the magnet. She didn't dare trust herself to look at the magnet again for fear of its magnetic pull on her eyes. She only used her mouth and her womb for expression, and her ears to hear the holy words she was saying.

At last her coils straightened upwards again. Her antennas were back to functional and she was again able to give forth knowledge and Truth and thus bring about peace.

The End.

Black History Month

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Its that time again. Black History month. I don't have any real plans, but hope to post some inspiring flashback posts and new posts for BW.

Haiti

And to add insult to injury....

"We had permission from the Dominican Republic government to bring the children [from Haiti] to an orphanage that we have there[in America]."

So country x gives someone from country y permission to do whatever they want in country z??!!! Good grief.